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In Russia, new measures are being put forward to deter those who openly criticise Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine, including a proposal to seize their property. Source: UK Defence Intelligence review dated 24 January on Twitter, as reported by European Pravda Details: The Russian Federation's State Duma recently introduced draft amendments to the Criminal Code regarding the confiscation of property for "fakes" and "discrediting" the Russian Army.

Morson would like to draw a sharp dividing line between the refined sensibilities of Golden Age czarist Russia and the horrors of the Soviet Union.

Russia, that half-barbarous country, whose leaders, be they czars or commissars, Rasputins or Putins, have always treated their own people as if they were a conquered nation, this same Russia, in the course of little more than a century brought forth the greatest body of literature the world has ever known. That is a large but, I believe, not risky generalization. Think only of the dazzling cavalcade of Russian writers: Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Goncharov, Leskov, Chekhov, and then, later, Isaac Babel, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Vasily Grossman, and...

The issue arose when Ukrainian writers and active-duty soldiers, Artyom Chapay and Artyom Chekh, who were originally set to participate in a separate panel, refused to attend the festival altogether unless Russians were excluded entirely

Daniel J. Mahoney on the Russian literary tradition.